Background
Arthur Eugene Bestor was born in 1879 in Dixon, Illinois.
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Arthur Eugene Bestor was born in 1879 in Dixon, Illinois.
He served as the President of Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York from 1915 to his death in 1944. Bestor served as the President of Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York from 1915 to 1944. He was a proponent of adult education.
Under his twenty-nine year administration, the Institution grew from an assembly for teachers and ministers with modest facilities to a wide-ranging summer program with a symphony orchestra, an opera company, a resident repertory theater company, and celebrated lecturers.
Personal life
They had three children:
Arthur East. Bestor, Junior. He was a distinguished professor of American intellectual and constitutional history, and an important critic of American educational practices.
Mary Francis Bestor Cram. She was a leader of lay organizations in the American Baptist Church and the Young Women"s Christian Association, serving as president of the United States. organization.
Charles Lemon Bestor.
He is a composer of contemporary classical music, a music educator, and professor of music (emeritus) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Death
He died on February 3, 1944 in New York City.